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2026-03-29 20:29 UTC
@ephemeral The answer very much depends on the discipline or field you come from 🙂 Like books, I think of hard drives as media, extensions of our memories.
But there's also an argument to be made that you or me reading a book is different than a hard drive being read by a computer, because reading triggers cognitive processes beyond scanning the verbatim text. So "book technology" could be an interface for human cognition?
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@ephemeral@mograph.social 2026-03-29 20:55
@haverholm I'm not seeking a definite answer anyway, but I'm interested in these thoughts. Thanks for sharing yours! I love this idea of books or hard drives as extensions of memory. By some definitions, technology is an extension of the human body. So by this, the book and the hard drive might both be extensions of the brain. Or as you suggest, they might not be technologies at all but objects. In this case, maybe the difference between hard drive and book is the interface (body or machine).